“To us it’ll be a scarecrow, but to that coon it’ll be a man.”
Knowing too well how smart coons were, right away I began to lose confidence.
“I don’t see how anything like that can keep a coon in a tree,” I said.
“It’ll keep him there all right,” Grandpa said. “Like I told you before, they’re curious little devils.
He’ll poke his head out of that hole, see this man standing here, and he won’t dare come down.
It’ll take him four or five days to figure out that it isn’t a real honest-to-goodness man.
By that time it’ll be too late. You’ll have his hide tacked on the smokehouse wall.”
The more I thought about it, the more I believed it, and then there was that serious look on Grandpa’s face.
That was all it took. I was firmly convinced. I started laughing.
The more I thought about it, the funnier it got. Great big laughing tears rolled down my cheek.
“What’s so funny?” Grandpa asked. “Don’t you believe it’ll work?”
“Sure it’ll work, Grandpa,” I said. “I know it will. I was just thinking— those coons aren’t half as smart as they think they are, are they?”
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